Two people come to him. They take off his mask and helmet and give him a towel to wrap around himself. They also give him some saltwater. The divers have gathered under a small, roofed area of the boat to escape the heavy showers falling down. Arjia is among them but Tirad usually feels sick after coming up to the surface, he would shiver and throw up every time. The divers tell him he will get used to the vertigo and the nausea after diving. Tirad can’t say anything back. He is holding a buckle in his hand, throwing up. Arjia is telling the mining team about their discovery. The diving-head asks if he is sure the steels are not corroded? Arjia is sure. He says their surfaces have been oxidised but since they were in a closed area, the temperature was low and there were no currents, they are still intact. The diving-head is suspicious about the hole. He doesn’t know whether it was created by the explosion or has caved in by the aftershocks. If it was the same time as the explosion, the concrete divers would have found the steel bars and mine them already, or they might still plan to do so. The diving-head orders the mining team to get ready for diving out the first batch that day, he wants them to hurry and start away.

Tirad wants to be with the mining team, now that he has been a part of this great discovery. He wants to go deeper in the caves and see how the pre-rain people used these caves for transportation. Arjia tells the diving team that if they are lucky, they might even find untouched locomotives in the caves. The diving-head agrees with him. One of the team members suggests that it might be better to get help from another diving team like Parand Ship to help them extract the steel bars since the estimated amount and the weight of the steels are great. They only have six more weeks to mine this area. Yet the diving-head believes they should do it themselves and dive out whatever they can, not mentioning it anywhere else. But they need to work full time and with all their power to profit as much as possible in the next six weeks. Especially now and with the starting war, it is not wise to share this profit with others. The rest of the divers agree with him. Tirad feels better now and tells the diving-head he wants to take part in the mining. He doesn’t approve. One of the divers approaches Tirad.